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Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
inclēmēns (“harsh”) + -ia
Noun
inclēmentia f (genitive inclēmentiae); first declension
- harshness, unkindness, fierceness, severity, cruelty, rigor, lack of mercy
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 2.602–603:
- “‘ dīvom inclēmentia, dīvom, / hās ēvertit opēs sternitque ā culmine Troiam.’”
- “‘ the harshness of the gods – gods’ overturns these riches and strikes down Troy from its height.’”
(Aeneas recalls how Venus revealed to him the deities who were destroying the city. Syncope: divorum.)
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
inclēmentia
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of inclēmēns
References
- “inclementia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “inclementia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- inclementia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.